Frankenstein, sujet d'invention en anglais

important scientists who were his friends helped me, too.

I was interested in my work and I did not take one day's

holiday during the next two years. I did not go home, and

my letters to my family were very short.

After two years I had discovered many things and I

built a scientific machine that was better than anything in

the university. My machine would help me answer the

most important question of all. How does life begin? Is it

possible to put life into dead things? To answer these

questions about life I had to learn first about death. I had

to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the

warm life left them. In the hospital and in the universiry, I

watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, month

after month, I followed death. It was a dark and terrible

time.

Then one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was

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Victor Frankenstein's Story

sure that I knew the secret of life. I knew that I could put

life into a body that was not alive'

I worked harder and harder now. I slept for only a

short time each night, and I did not eat much food' I

wrote to my family less often. But they loved me and did

not stop writing to me. They said they understood how

busy I was. They did not want me to stop work to write

or to see them. They would wait until I had more time'

They hoped to see me very soon.

The professors realized that I was doing very important

work, and so they gave me my own laboratory' There

wâs a small flat above the laboratory, where I lived, and

sometimes I stayed inside the building for a week and did

not go out.

Above the laboratory I built â very tall mast' It was 150

nretres high, and higher than the tallest building in the

city. The mast could catch lightning and could send the

clectriciry down to my machine in the laboratory' I had

ncver forgotten the lightning that had destroyed the tree'

There had been so much power in the electricity of that

lightning. I believed I could use that electricity to give life

to things that

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